Wangari Maathai (1940 - 2011)

Founder of the Green Belt movement in Kenya, Wangari Maathai was the first woman in central or eastern Africa to earn a Ph.D., and the first woman head of a university department in Kenya. She was also the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize.

Known for
In 1971, she became the first Eastern African woman to receive a PhD, her doctorate in veterinary anatomy, from the University College of Nairobi, which became the University of Nairobi the following year. She completed her dissertation on the development and differentiation of gonads in bovines. Controversies: personal, political, and science-based (questions about AIDS/hiv)

Find more
The Green Belt Movement: Sharing the Approach and the Experience. Lantern Books. 2004. ISBN 978-1-59056-040-2.; (1985)

The bottom is heavy too: even with the Green Belt Movement : the Fifth Edinburgh Medal Address (1994)

Bottle-necks of development in Africa (1995)

The Canopy of Hope: My Life Campaigning for Africa, Women, and the Environment (2002)

Unbowed: A Memoir (2006) ISBN 9780307492333

Reclaiming rights and resources women, poverty and environment (2007)

Rainwater Harvesting (2008)

State of the world's minorities 2008: events of 2007 (2008)

The Challenge for Africa. Anchor Books. 2010. (2009) Moral Ground: Ethical Action for a Planet in Peril. (2010) chapter Nelson, Michael P. and Kathleen Dean Moore (eds.). Trinity University Press

Replenishing the Earth (2010)

Works based on

Taking Root (2008)  documentary

Official Site: The Green Belt Movement and Wangari Maathai